Human Rights for All Post-2015 May 2013

Recognizing that a post-2015 framework should be anchored in human rights and based on the inherent dignity of people as human rights-holders, domestic governments as primary duty-bearers, with all development actors sharing common but differentiated responsibilities, a number of human rights organizations have set out some of the baseline implications to embed human rights into the core of the sustainable development agenda.

The post-2015 framework should be designed as a tool to empower and enable people — individually and collectively — to monitor and hold their governments, other governments, businesses, international institutions and other development actors to account for their conduct as it affects people’s lives within and beyond borders. A sustainable development framework that is founded in human rights, moreover can serve as an instrument for people and countries to help unseat the structural obstacles to sustainable, inclusive and just development, and stimulate implementation and enforcement of all human rights — civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, the right to development and to environmental protection. For more information see here. 

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At a time of great uncertainty, multiple crises and increasing insecurity and conflict, let us not found the 21st century sustainable development framework on 'bracketed rights’ and broken promises, but instead on a bold reaffirmation of human rights for all.